Respectful Dissent @ 28

Thanks for all your amazing hard work, Tim. Fighting the good fight over and over must be tough.

If you have a chance, can you speak a little on how Ned and his family took the loss? I hope it wasn’t too devastating. I hope he knows (and you do, too) that his example shone brightly and inspired a lot of people. We need more fighters like that, and I hope that the momentum keeps building. Thanks.

To be honest, I haven’t talked to Ned’s family since the election. I’ve talked to Ned a few times about taking what we built online and using it in the future (ie. email list, website, etc). When I get back from New Orleans, I’m sure we’ll sit down one afternoon, I’ll register my feedback on the email list and what he can do with it, and he’ll take it or leave it.

But when I’ve talked with ned, he sounds good and proud of what we all accomplished together.

Tim

I wouldn’t worry about Ned’s family. As Tim said of Ned, they are all proud of the accomplishments of everyone in this campaign, and of Ned. I talked to his Mom and Dad election night and one daughter the next day. Stoic like many of us,it was not meant to be in ‘06. I am sure that at the Thank You Pizza session where each participant spoke of what was most important or gained from their efforts, the 100 comments helped bring to the forefront for Ned how much personal positive impact resulted from this “losing”(?) effort.

Personally I direct a lot of blame for what happened in CT at Bill Clinton (”Its a win-win”), a Democrat I’ve never supported and who I think has been as bad as cancer on the Democratic Party, along with the crowd around him, Carville, Hillary, etc. When people over at ‘Kos refer to Clinton as the “Big dog,” I want to vomit.

From the start, he hurt the Democratic Party. You can go back to the ‘92 campaign and find him promising a gathering of big shot California gays right before the CA primary that he’ll change the military’s policy on homosexuals serving. He only did that to get their support over Jerry Brown in the primary and they went for it, which was pretty crummy because Brown should have had their loyalty. But Clinton corrupted people because they thought he was a winner. Anyway, after the election, when the subject came up again, Clinton’s handling of it hurt the Democrats because he wasn’t committed to ending discrimination, it was just something to use for that primary.

He was awful, IMO; how he annoyed me carrying that huge Bible to church because Harry Tomlinson scripted it for the “Man from Hope.” During the last couple weeks before the 2006 election, it made me worry that Clinton was doing so much campaigning and the national media played it up big.

Jeeez, don’t we get enough “blame Clinton” from the Republicans. Clinton was not a bad president, neither was Bush sr. and this guy is his son. Bottom line, BLAME BUSH, he is the one who has divided the nation and attacked logic. He is the one who has put some of the worst people in positions of power. He is the one who got us into, and then lead, this cluster of a war. Blame Clinton for the worst President ever? NAW!

From the start, he hurt the Democratic Party. You can go back to the ‘92 campaign and find him promising a gathering of big shot California gays right before the CA primary that he’ll change the military’s policy on homosexuals serving. He only did that to get their support over Jerry Brown in the primary and they went for it, which was pretty crummy because Brown should have had their loyalty. But Clinton corrupted people because they thought he was a winner. Anyway, after the election, when the subject came up again, Clinton’s handling of it hurt the Democrats because he wasn’t committed to ending discrimination, it was just something to use for that primary.

He was awful, IMO; how he annoyed me carrying that huge Bible to church because Harry Tomlinson scripted it for the “Man from Hope.” During the last couple weeks before the 2006 election, it made me worry that Clinton was doing so much campaigning and the national media played it up big.

Spazeboy, Ct. Bob, Maura, Ct. Keith, Ct. Blogger, Branford, Matt, Jane, Matt, Christy, Tim and so many others made up the netroots for the Ned Lamont campaign. Their stories and videos on the the blogs educated people so much on what was happening in Connecticut.

You fought the good fight and I truly wish the outcome was different, but we all knew going into this race that Ned was going up against the Political Machine.

Machine(s) but who’s counting?

a soldier

You fought the good fight and I truly wish the outcome was different, but we all knew going into this race that Ned was going up against the Political Machine.